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Hands  up if you do that crazy thing where you look through the characters in a scene from a movie, sitcom, or reality TV show- instead of at them- so that you can hear the soundtrack better? Anyone? Well, I know that I’ve lost the plot to Pretty Little Liars and Gossip Girl several timesContinue reading “Music Makes TV”

The word “whirlwind” comes to mind when I think of this weekend’s events. Family reunions, life-endangering bus rides, birthdays and special requests make up the bulk of what turned out to be a three-day birthday experience for Pearl and her friends. From Thursday afternoon to Saturday night a bunch of us (Pearl’s mom and herContinue reading “We Laugh. We Pose. We Snap Photos.”

When I walked into a friend’s room and saw this CD lying on her desk, I laughed. Loud and long. On the cover was the most ridiculous picture I’d seen in a while: a goonish-looking white man in an ibeshu posing under some dodge tree with a guitar! It looks like a mugshot. And his boepContinue reading “Death by IBhubesi Elimhlophe”

Okay. I already knew that.But, even after almost two years here, I am never quite prepared for the many ways in which this school lashes out at me. That’s not a figure of speech: today, I could actually feel the hoofs of the Wits Goat pounding at me wildly from every direction possible as IContinue reading “Wits Just Does NOT Let Up!”

 So. I’m back from the break, and I must say that it’s amazing how days can drag on forever, but still seem like they are flying by at lightning speed. I got to my room after I said “bye” to my sisters, and I just felt like running after them. *sigh* It’s back to theContinue reading “I’m Back- and I Come Bearing Gifts!”

Time to go to the back of the wardrobe and dig out the sunhats, the twirly skirts, the flirty tops and the espadrilles, ladies: Spring is finally here! But remember, when you’re shedding off the winter layers, that “letting it all hang out” is not always a good thing. Dignity never goes out of style.Continue reading “A Change of Seasons, Fashion Slavery, and A Call for A Return to Dignity”

I have been deplorably absent from this webpage in the past few weeks, and that is due to a strange mix of fatigue, apathy, sickness and Writer’s Block. To make up for it, I have a summary of everything I have seen and heard while I was on “hiatus”, in order of recency.On the 23rdContinue reading “August”

I am pretty sure no one is as big a fan of the first Bring It On as I am. No one. I mean, when that movie was first released, it was all anyone in my Grade 5 register class could talk about. I knew the entire script off by heart by the third timeContinue reading “Mini-Skirts and Bolamakiesies Never Looked So Good”

“…Becoming Something requires unwavering commitment to the cause, and this is the year that I will do everything on my B.Y.E (Best Year Ever) list. I mean, I have to- otherwise the whole university experience will have been wasted on me, because I will have learnt nothing and grown very little…” That was before IContinue reading “B.Y.E: Revisited”

I’ve had this in my mind since this morning at church: …and I was thinking: “waiting to be stirred…” Do with it what you will.